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Las Vegas, Nevada natives Escape The Fate introduced their
brand of hardcore/punk metal with an EP earlier in the year entitled
There's No Sympathy For The Dead. ETF's debut full length
album Dying Is Your Latest Fashion is loaded with bombarding
drums, fiendish guitar riffs, and finely carved vocals that scale
the dotting rhythms, flexing and expanding with an Eighteen
Visions foment. They lock in stormy choruses and torrential
instrument sessions with battering motions having an Atreyu
crush and a From First To Last metallic clanging through
the verses.
From beginning to end, the album precipitates with a fierce urgency
and winded instrument parts shown on "The Webs We Weave,"
"Situations," and "Reverse This Curse." The
vocals of lead singer Ronnie Radke shout, dribble, and
refract with an instinctive gauge, knowing where to place his
vocal melody through the motions. The raveling guitar creases
and blustering colonnades crafted by Bryan Money and Omar
Espinosa crackle and flame through the metallic folds. The
bass plaits of Max Green and the thundering drum cuts of
Robert Ortiz ramrod with hardcore tunage and percolate
the beats with an Autumn To Ashes vane. Escape The Fate's
movements are fierce, hotblooded, and rapacious but portray similar
dynamic feats as Logan Square, Scary Kids Scaring Kids,
and Underoath.
The season of hardcore/punk metalists is inciting each band
to outdo their measurements of blistering gales, but in the
process creating a tunnel vision for their songs. Escape The
Fate's strength lies in their flexibility for scaling vocals
which move from screamo to wistful. They shroud the vocals in
stormy stratospheres which makes their repertoire repetitive.
Although it expresses the mood in their lyrical content which
is personable with a woeful-incline to its phrasing like for
"The Day I Left The Womb": "If you see mother
tell her I can sing/ Please don't worry/ I am doing fine/ You're
much too busy to even find the time/ So use your chemicals and
take this to your grave/ The boys you left are men you didn't
raise."
"The Day I Left The Womb" along with "There's
No Sympathy For The Dead" are stand out tracks which stretch
ETF's sonic flairs with cello intervals performed by Dave Holdredge.
"The Day I Left The Womb" also features acoustic guitars
which exposes the listener to another side of the band and projects
more from the band's mashing hardcore/punk metal dirges. The songs
are geared for the hardcore/alternative rock audience, but a surplus
of it on one album causes the album to become stagnant and narrows
ETF's scope of expression.
Produced by Michael Baskette, Dying Is Your Latest
Fashion is a fully loaded debut album that starts Escape The
Fate out on a solid footing. Their capabilities are proficient
and their potential is expansive. They pull out hardcore as fierce
as Atreyu and acoustic rock as riveting as Stone Sour.
-Susan Frances
Track Listing:
1. The Webs We Weave
2. When I Go Out, I Want to Go Out On a Chariot of Fire
3. Situations
4. The Guillotine
5. Reverse This Curse
6. Cellar Door
7. Theres No Sympathy for the Dead
8. My Apocalypse
9. Friends and Alibis
10. Not Good Enough For Truth In Cliche
11. The Day I Left the Womb
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